Staying well for the long haul
Systems leader resilience and case studies.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Systems Leadership
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
Systems change outlasts most jobs, so looking after the person doing the work is part of the work. This module draws on Ronald Heifetz's holding environment, Heifetz and Linsky's advice on managing yourself, and Ghate, Lewis and Welbourn's ways of being. It explores your own energy as a stock, the different clocks a systems leader keeps, a simple cycle of personal practice, and what Jacinda Ardern's resignation shows about leading yourself. This capstone brings no new theory, only new eyes. It reads three well-known English cases, the Wigan Deal, Leeds as a restorative city and the Preston Model of community wealth building, through the whole systems leadership toolkit: stocks and flows, archetypes, Meadows's leverage points, adaptive work, trust and power, and measurement. It draws out four common lessons and asks you to take one idea back to your own work this week.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Explain how Heifetz's productive zone of disequilibrium and Heifetz and Linsky's ideas on hungers, role and self apply to your own leadership.
- Use systems ideas such as stocks, feedback loops and time horizons to identify the part you play in patterns of depletion.
- Plan a personal practice of noticing, reflecting, connecting, resting and returning that sustains you over years rather than one crisis.
- Analyse a real case through several systems frameworks at once, including archetypes, leverage points, stocks and flows, and power.
- Distinguish the policies a case is known for from the relationships and mental models that made those policies work.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 16Sustaining Yourself as a Systems LeaderSystems change outlasts most jobs, so looking after the person doing the work is part of the work. This module draws on Ronald Heifetz's holding environment, Heifetz and Linsky's advice on managing yourself, and Ghate, Lewis and Welbourn's ways of being. It explores your own energy as a stock, the different clocks a systems leader keeps, a simple cycle of personal practice, and what Jacinda Ardern's resignation shows about leading yourself.37 min
- 17Applied Case Studies: CapstoneThis capstone brings no new theory, only new eyes. It reads three well-known English cases, the Wigan Deal, Leeds as a restorative city and the Preston Model of community wealth building, through the whole systems leadership toolkit: stocks and flows, archetypes, Meadows's leverage points, adaptive work, trust and power, and measurement. It draws out four common lessons and asks you to take one idea back to your own work this week.40 min
Keep going.
Part of the Systems Leadership topic, also sold whole as Leading the whole system.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Change that lasts, 4 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- Explore, Leading across the system, 5 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
- The whole topicImmerse, Leading the whole system, 11 hours, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Beyond our own walls
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- Seeing the wholeSystems thinking and system mapping2 hours£39
- Where a small push goes farSystem archetypes and leverage points1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Leading what no one controlsComplex adaptive systems and systems leaders1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Sensing what wants to emergeAdaptive leadership and Theory U1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Trust as the real currencyRelational leadership and Collective Impact1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Where law and place meetWelsh law, integrated care and devolution1 hour 15 minutes£39
